Gaganitsa, Z. quadrifida zone (Jurassic of Bulgaria)

Where: Bulgaria (43.3° N, 23.1° E: paleocoordinates 23.3° N, 25.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Pliensbachian (190.8 - 182.7 Ma)

• Zeilleria quadrifida zone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

• agitated sublittoral biotope

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Primary reference: P. Tchoumatchenco. 1996. Zonation and paleoecological distribution of Bulgarian Jurassic brachiopods. In P. Copper, J. Jin (eds.), Brachiopods 269-274 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 106903: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 29.03.2011

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferinida - Spiriferinidae
Liospiriferina alpina Oppel 1861
subsp. falloti
 Terebratulida - Zeilleriidae
Zeilleria sarthacensis d'Orbigny 1850
Zeilleria subnumismalis Davidson 1851
Zeilleria quadrifida Lamarck 1819
 Terebratulida - Lobothyrididae
Lobothyris edwardsii, "Lobothyris subpunctata" = Lobothyris punctata
"Lobothyris subpunctata" = Lobothyris punctata Sowerby 1812